Goodbye South, Goodbye

Goodbye South, Goodbye
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Directed by	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Written by	Chu Tien-wen Jack Kao King Jieh-Wen
Produced by	Yang Teng-kuei
Starring	Jack Kao Lim Giong Annie Shizuka Inoh Hsi Hsiang Hsu Kuei-Ying
Cinematography	Mark Lee Ping Bin Chen Huai-en
Edited by	Liao Ching-Song
Music by	Lim Giong Summer Lei L.T.K.
Release date	May 1996
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Language	Mandarin

Goodbye South, Goodbye is a 1996 film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Plot

Gao (Jack Kao) rides the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10-day gambling den with his friend Hsi (Hsi Hsiang). He takes his acolyte Flatty (Lim Giong) and Pretzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Flatty's girlfriend, who works part-time in a night club. Gao's girlfriend Ying (Hsu Kuei-Ying) works in the same night club as Pretzel and doesn't like the people around Gao, finding them dangerous. Gao has already made a deal with Hsi to invest in a nightclub in Shanghai, but Ying doesn't want him to go. Instead, she wants him to stay in Taiwan to open a restaurant. A succession of get-rich-quick schemes leads them to the brink of disaster. Throughout the course of the film the unsavory alliance between the underworld and the political elite emerges.

Reception

Goodbye South, Goodbye was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, but lost to Secrets & Lies. It was chosen along with The Bridges of Madison County and Carlito's Way as the best film of the 1990s by Cahiers du cinéma.

Cast

• Jack Kao as Gao
• Lim Giong as Flatty
• Annie Shizuka Inoh as Pretzel
• Hsi Hsiang as Hsi
• Hsu Kuei-Ying as Ying
• Lei Ming as Gao's father
• Lien Pi-tung as Tung
• Kao Ming as Ming
• Vicky Wei as Hui

External links

• Goodbye South, Goodbye at IMDb